Leadership
Cover2 Capital is led by a team with experience across acquisitions, capitalization, development, design, construction oversight, asset management, and project execution. The team combines institutional investment discipline with hands-on development experience and a focused strategy of delivering multifamily and mixed-use communities throughout Dallas-Fort Worth.
Blake Poston | Founder & Principal
Blake founded Cover2 Capital in 2022 and leads the firm’s vision, investment strategy, capital formation, and execution of ground-up multifamily and mixed-use development opportunities.
Prior to founding Cover2, Blake was with S2 Capital, where he helped lead acquisition efforts and the capitalization of more than 50 multifamily joint ventures and fund investments totaling approximately 30,000 units and over $3.6 billion across major Sun Belt markets. He began his career at Transwestern Development Company, supporting ground-up multifamily development across Texas, including underwriting, market research, budgeting, and project execution.
Blake played football at SMU and graduated with a degree in Economics. He serves on the board of the Stallings Award and is a member of the Touchdown Club of Dallas, which supports early childhood education for children with developmental disabilities. Blake lives in Dallas with his wife, Savannah, and their two children, Poppy and Beau.
Mark Culwell | Principal
Mark maintains responsibility for the overall operation and management of each development.
Mark has over 40 years of real estate experience with 37 of those years specifically in multifamily. Most recently, Mark served as Managing Director of Multifamily development for Transwestern. Mark joined Transwestern after serving as Senior Vice President-Development for UDR, Inc., a publicly traded real estate investment trust.
Prior to joining UDR, he served as Regional Vice President-Development for Gables Residential Trust. Mark began his career with Trammell Crow Residential as a divisional partner and since then has developed over 11,000 apartment homes and overseen $1.9 billion of new apartment development in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, Virginia, the District of Columbia, North Carolina, California and Washington.
Mark attended Abilene Christian University on a football scholarship and graduated with a degree in Marketing. Mark lives in Dallas, TX with his wife Mindy. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.
Chris Wolbrink | Director of Construction
Chris leads the management and coordination of all activities associated with the construction of the development.
Chris began his career in 1999 at The Beck Group. Since 2004, Chris has been working as a construction consultant providing design and construction financial control services to Owners on commercial construction projects including project planning, project team selection, process management, contract development, negotiations, claims management and evaluating construction risk.
As a consultant he has reviewed and analyzed over $10B in construction contracts and managed construction claims from $10K to over $100M. In 2017, Chris co-founded SiteTraxx, a hardware and software solution for construction event and resource tracking, reporting and analytics.
Chris lives in Dallas, TX as an Oklahoma State Cowboy with his wife Kimberly and their son Carter.
Bryan Welty | Director of Design
Bryan leads all aspects associated with planning and design of the development.
Bryan has over 30 years of design and development experience in the DFW market, including single family, multi-family, retail, and mixed-use projects. Most recently, Bryan has worked with Cambridge Homes, completing more than 20 single family and multi-family residential subdivisions. He was responsible for site location and due diligence, as well as the site and dwelling unit designs.
Prior to Cambridge, Bryan spent 10 years with 36 Power Equity, a developer of retail, pad sites, and mixed-use projects. He was responsible for every facet of development, from land acquisition, entitlement, design & construction coordination through disposition.
Bryan started his career at Welty & Associates, a family architecture firm specializing in multi-family. Over his years at the firm, he completed over 120 apartment communities. Bryan lives in the Lakewood neighborhood of Dallas with his wife Callie and daughters Mazie and Hazel. His oldest, Elizabeth is following in his footsteps at the University of Texas.